Blog Log for Nov. 19

Here are snippets from some of our blogs last week. The blogs, and others, can be seen in their entirety at www.norcalblogs.com.

From "Chico, Sustainable" by Jeremy Miller:

This blog post is about Paleo. When your wife, a vegetarian of 28 years, says she's ready to go cold turkey on legumes and grains and switch to eating meat on a daily basis for health reasons, you have to take notice. And I am not just talking chicken breast — we went whole hog, or a least the shoulder. And slow-cooked chuck roast. And buffalo burgers. And she says she feels healthier than she has in a long time.

I stuck it out for 30 days. This diet is hard, but not without merit. I had already cut out sweets and dairy a couple months prior as a part of a personal weight-loss endeavor, and going Paleo didn't impact this effort.

From "Those Amazing Birds" by Roger Lederer:

I'm writing this from my room on the Paul Gauguin cruise ship halfway between Fiji and New Caledonia where we arrive tomorrow. This is part of the world I don't know much about, but that's the great part about traveling — it's so educational.

Besides the traveling, the emphasis on this voyage is on the total solar eclipse which will happen here on Nov. 14. The ship is full of amateur astronomers and serious eclipse watchers. For some passengers, this will be their 10th or 11th total eclipse; for one passenger his 17th!

It'll certainly be interesting, but you would think one solar eclipse would be sufficient. But they probably think similar things about us birdwatchers — seen one bird, seen 'em all.